Chanel
Designer: Karl Lagerfeld

• “Couturier Karl Lagerfeld on Tuesday celebrated the story of French fashion house Chanel in a show set around a huge globe showing how the label has grown from a single boutique in the seaside town of Deauville to a global brand with a presence in hundreds of cities.” [AFP]
• “Even if the show wasn’t quite as transporting as some of Lagerfeld’s recent collections, he always manages to tweak things just enough each time to keep Chanel fans coming back for more.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “The show’s 79 varied looks brimmed with ideas, classic and new, and showed that the designer in his late 70s is still a creative force to be reckoned with.” [AP]
• “It sent a strong statement to make to a very captive and influential audience: whatever you might think of the collection, Chanel is the global powerhouse.” [The Daily Beast]
• “Lagerfeld really does have the whole world in his hands.” [Daily Front Row]
• “Walking into Chanel’s show-refitted Grand Palais this morning felt like entering the no-expense-spared lair of some old-school, James Bond, megalomaniacal villain.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “A statement of global fashion domination only Chanel might be so bold as to carry off.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “Though it still works for Mr Lagerfeld–witness his bouclé suiting, this time given a dark metallic sheen, bulked up with a curve, and paired with a mini; elongated knits; and long sheer organza shirt dresses, all punked up with flat boots, thigh-highs, and a splash of shredded denim, and set around a giant revolving globe, in case anyone had any doubts about Chanel’s global power–perhaps it is time to reassess its effectiveness.” [FT.com]
• “It was an impressive show of global power–who knew Chanel had not one, but two boutiques in Honolulu?–but also neatly broadened the focus of the event, from the arcane procedures of a Paris show–the ritualistic pomp, the place names in traditional calligraphy–to the reality of a luxury brand in the 21st century.” [The Guardian]
• “For autumn/winter 13, Karl Lagerfeld continued on his journey to world domination with another stellar collection for Chanel.” [i-D Online]
• “To date, Lagerfeld is enjoying his 31st year at Chanel and the world is his oyster when it comes to set creation and clothes which themselves looked rich, though and even fun and this was observed by Milla Jovovich and Jessica Chastain in the front row.” [The Independent]
• “Compared with the lyrical Scottish collections that the designer showed in Edinburgh in December, this show seemed pedestrian.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “I wish Mr. Lagerfeld would start thinking local. He put on a great show, but the distance between my seat and the models probably qualified for airline miles points. Later, when I looked at images, I realized that the white dot on the runway was Mr. Lagerfeld’s snowy head. O.K., I’m exaggerating, but not by much.” [The New York Times]
• “This was a collection choc-a-block with real world clothing made for real women all over the world. And it proved that if Chanel doesn’t dominate the world yet, if it keeps producing collections like this one, it soon will.” [NOWFASHION]
• “Lagerfeld is a designer who might think big but whose feet are firmly on the ground. Spectacle aside, this was one of the most pared back Chanel collections Lagerfeld has shown for a while, the silhouettes more linear, the ideas narrowed down. Wear these, he was saying, and you’ll be the epitome of chic wherever you are in the world.” [SHOWstudio]
• “If this is Karl’s world, then we want to live in it.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “Chanel’s Fall 2013 ready-to-wear collection was a study in how to be a global brand.” [Style.com]
• “Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel army marched on to world domination to the sound track of Daft Punk’s ‘Around the World’–and his ideas moved as fast and furious as they did.” [Vogue.com]
• “Chanel; the global power of Chanel; globe-trotting Chanel-style; taking over the Chanel world; it’s a small Chanel world after all: with a huge globe sitting in the centre of the Grand Palais this morning, spinning as it went and with CC flags all over to show its worldwide prowess and Daft Punk’s Around The World playing out the models, there was simply no end to the puns that one could come up with to link the world of Chanel to, well, the world and the effect it has on it.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “A tough-chic silhouette for Chanel, which Karl Lagerfeld described as ‘menacing.’” [Wmagazine.com]
• “Many aspire; few achieve. World domination, that is.” [WWD]